Direction-indicator for automobiles.



DIRECTION INDICATOR FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.9, I9l5.

Patented Nov.

WITNESSES ice it is provided JOSEPE ARTHUR,

TRIMBLE AND ISAAC ROBERT CONCOFF, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

DIBECTl0N-INDICATOR FOR AUTOMOBILES.

driver can give a. signal when he desires to or slow down or steer to the right or left the form pf a stop, the signal means being in semaphore or arm preferably mounted at each side of the wind shield dash of the automobile, whereby the semaphore can caused to swing up and down at the right or left side, according to the direction in which the car is to be turned; and for adapting the semaphore for day and night servwith a disk or target which can be seen by day and with which is associated o lamp that night.

A further object oithe invention is the provision of o semaphore which when in hanging position causes the lamp circuit to be open, but when the arm is thrown upwardly the lamp circuit is automatically closed so as to light the lamp provided the power is turned on.

Still another object is to provide a signal device of the character referred to which can be operated from a, lever or suitable device mounted on the steering wheel from a pedal or from a. solenoid controlled by a pushbutton.

The invention has as a further object the construction of a target or signal which is so designed as to oiier a minimum resistance to the wind, and which has a, central opening in which the signal lamp is disposed.

With such objects in view, and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claim appended hereto. 7

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views,

Specification of Letters latent.

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have invented s new and can be lighted for use at- ?atented Nov. 6, 1917.

Application filed Decemberl), 1915. Serial No. 65,896.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the front portion of an automobile showing the signal devices mounted on the sides of the wind Fig. 2;is a front view of one of the signal devices;

Fig. 3 is aplan view thereof;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on 47-41, Fig. 3;

the line Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on the.

line 5-5, Fig. 2; and V Fig. 6 is a detail view of one of the actuating levers mounted on the steering wheel fonthrowing a signal device to operative position. Referrin to the drawing, A designates an automo ile which has a wind shield 1, and on the opposite sides of which are mounted the signal devices B which are used for day or night service and are adapted to be thrown outwardly to desired to indicate that the car is to turn a corner, slow down or stop. In the present instance the signal devices are carried by the wind shield frame, but it is to be understood that they can be fastened to any other suitable point of the automobile. The signal device B comprises a tubular arm 2 which has on its outer end a lamp socket 3 for receiving a red or other electric lamp l, and through the tubular arm extend the wires 5 and 6 for supplying current to the lamp. On the outer end of this arm 2 is fastened a vertically disposed disk 7 which serves for. signaling during the day. This dish may be of any desired color, and in order to reduce wind resistance it is provided with a plurality of large central opening 9 in which the lamp l is disposed.

The signal device B normally hangs in a vertical position, the inner end of the arm 2 being mounted to swing on a bracket 10 which is fastened to theframe 11 of the wind shield. The arm 2 has it chambered enlargement 12 through which extends a pivot bolt 13 for fastening the arm to the bracket 10. In this chambered part 12 is a circuit make und break device which comprises spring contacts 14 and 15 connected with the wires 5 and 6, respectively, and cooperating with these contacts 14 and 15 are posts orfixed contacts 14 and 15 which are fastened in the fixed disk 16 which forms one wall of the chamber 12. The port of the chamber 12 to which the contacts apertures 8 and a :With is moved from 14: and 15 are fee 2, While the part 16 i the arm 2 hangs in contacts 14 and 15 er with the contacts is These contacts 14 end l7 and 18 connected therewit are connected with e suitebie rent and with a switch, s-s that by the closing of the switch can be used.

The throwing oi"- the signal device i; from an inoperative hanging position te outstanding operative position is eccezn plished through the use of a Eowdein which has its duter tubule elenient fastened to the bracket 19 and the inner longitudinally movable element 29 connected with the enlargement 12 cf the 2 at the point 21. This cable is shcwn the present instance as ccnnected with steering Wheel a of the eutcinebile, he? being on the steering vvheei separate leve r and Z for operating the right and is signal devices, respectively. The inner inevable section 20 of the Bowdoin cable is connected with an operating lever, whiie the adjacent end of the outer secticni9 is made fast to a suitable member 21 on the steering Wheel. By means of this cable the steering wheel can be operated in the usual manner for steering a car Without having any effect e out 0;

' am "a gnai lamps on the signal devices, but when a signal device is to be operated it is to manipulate the lever 1 or Z as the case may be. When the lever r or Z is pulled upweirdly the signal device connected there a pendant to e horizontal position, and when the pressure of the lever is removed the signal device drops te pendent position. Thus, by moving lever successively the signal device is to swing up and down so that drivers other vehicles, or pedestrians, can knew he -v merely necessei f scepe the appended c eving thus descih claim as new and desire Patent:

The a direc ien 21TH} and with 2 bis tube threes tends end having 7 bracket and other steering wheel, WI

actuater causes the arm, said tie-xi of such length es to Wheel to be freely tnrnec.

and element being iii 

